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Sir Ludwig Guttmann CBE FRS [1] (3 July 1899 – 18 March 1980) was a German-British [2] neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games, the sporting event for people with disabilities (PWD) that evolved in England into the Paralympic Games.
Stoke Mandeville is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located three miles (5 km) from Aylesbury and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) from the market town of Wendover. Although a separate civil parish, the village falls within the Aylesbury Urban Area.
Joan Scruton MBE (1918 - November 1, 2007) was an organizing member of the International Stoke Mandeville Games from 1952 to 1968, which became the Paralympic Games in 1960. . Apart from the games, Scruton was secretary general at the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation from 1975 to 19
Nain was born in Badana village, Rohtak, Haryana. [1] He did his schooling at C. R. Z. Senior Secondary School, Sonipat. He was paralyzed below the waist after a diving accident on 2 June 2012 when he hit the rocks in a canal near his aunt's house. [2]
Charlene Todman, Bunty Brooks and Pat Kingsford at a NSW Society for Crippled Children event in May 1953. Todman was the first Australian to compete in the Stoke Mandeville Games, competing in archery at the 1951 edition as a member of the Stoke Mandeville team while rehabilitating at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
On March 22, 1969, Abebe was paralysed due to a car accident. He regained some upper-body mobility, but he never walked again. While he was receiving medical treatment in England, Abebe competed in archery and table tennis at the 1970 Stoke Mandeville Games in London. Those games were an early predecessor of the Paralympic Games.
Wolf competed at a total of nine Paralympics for Israel, his first games in Stoke Mandeville/New York in 1984 were his most successful as he picked up gold in the discus and shot put and silver in the javelin and pentathlon missing out on gold to Sweden's Raymond Clark in both events.
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